The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1887-05-13

motley the we'll worn cap and bells of the
| Abbevillc Press and BaHucr and cditorially
appeared on Friday in complete uniform.
Our Abbevillc contemporary promul-
gated the sapicnt aud profound suggestion
that it will be we'll to arm all prisoners
| charged with capital crimes with Winchcs-
ter rifles as method of preventing lynch
ing. With equal sapioncy and profundity
our Charleston cotcmpqrary accepts the
suggestion as a good one and argues in its
favor. All men who help to lynch crim-
mails are murdcrcrs, and should be shot tut
as they are towards, the fact that the per-
sons to be lynchcd arc armed and in shoot
ing condition would keep the lynchcrs back
and prevent mischief
We are not told what would become Of
the sheriff and jailcr in the event of lynch
ing raid of the ordinary kind, but it is easy
to imagine that they would be in painful
position, iftho reasoning and assumption of
our Charleston cotcmporary would hold
good. The lynchcrs, being towards, would
remain outside the Jail and would therefore
be safe. Only the officers would be in jco-
pardy with armed prisoners having di,
rect interest in their early and painless
deceasc inside ana armed lynchcrs outside
clamoring for vengeance for the armng Of
the priosucrs. With the rule suggested
by our contemporaries the Office o: sheriff
would be divcsted Of the monotcny that
sometimes surrounds i. but it would not like
| ly borcgardcd as desirable. Dolging Dimbly
about the corridor Of a Jail with propelled
buckshot entering the doors and windows
and rifle bullets emerging in rapid success
sion from the cells would be All interesting
-wo may say exciting but it
would not be wholesome GrccnuHr NcuS
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THE Liquor QuESrIoN.-Scncca, Pick
ems Co., May 3.-Scncca is about to be
badly stirred up. Three members OF the
town council elected in March were known
to be pronounced wet men, while tn, in
saqa aG4 4aS % vas ES Is Hf nc Rs %oqgp
ingmans ticket, and great many mcu
who are known rs autl-liJuor men were in
fuenccd thereby to vote it. New they
begin to show the stuff out Of which they
arc made. Yesterday application was
made by two men for barroom license.
The position taken by the liquor men
is that when the Statute prohibiting the
sale Of liquors iu Oconcc County was re-
pealcd it carried with it the Seneca bill.
The three liquor men iii the council passed
an ordinance granting license, but Intcn-
dant NJ. n. Sitton aud r. Il. Hayes, who
is also clerk Of council, refused to sign the
ordinance. These gentlemen have the
moral support # most of the property
holders aud nearly all Of those known as
the best people, wltc ana coloYtd. The
liquor men may expect. if they 60 into
the light, that the ants arc not going to
give up till they win or are defeated in the
Supreme Court CDr. Nc,r$ oaf Courier
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ALIEN LANDLoRpISM.-A bill sim liar
to the Alien Landlords bill, passed at the
recent session Of Congress, is pending in
the Illinois legislature. 1t provides that
hereafter aliens shall not be allowed to
buy land in the State until they shall have
declared their intention to become citizens !;
that unless they shall become citizens
within six years their lands shall revert to
the State, and that all aliens nov holding
lands in Illinois must become citizens
within three years. This bill is aimed at
one William Scul'y, an Orangcman wio
is said to have initiated in Illinois the
practices that have made English land
lords objects oil hatred in Ireland Soul
ly owns in the State from - 900 to 100.
600 acres, which are tiled by wrctchcd
tenants upon almost hopeless terms Tie
leases are said to contain some of the
worst features Of the Irish lease in use ten
years ago SculIy also owns about l0O,-
600 acres i'll Kansas. lie lives in Lon
don. The people of Illinois appear to
have determined that he mus, either sell
out or become a citizen, COR it is predicted
that the pending bill Will surely become
law.
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